{"id":1079,"date":"2017-02-09T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:39:12","slug":"asking-dr-peter-vardy-why-study-philosophyreligious-studies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2017\/02\/09\/asking-dr-peter-vardy-why-study-philosophyreligious-studies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Dr Peter Vardy: Why study philosophy\/religious studies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to spend a few days travelling around the UK with <a href=\"http:\/\/candleconferences.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candle Conferences<\/a>, where I have been talking about the Problem of Evil, and <a href=\"http:\/\/candleconferences.com\/meet-the-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Peter Vardy <\/a>has talked about arguments for God, religious experience, and more. We have also been debating issues around euthanasia with the audiences, full of engaged and interested young people.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Peter Vardy on why we should study religion and philosophy\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uziWq5SJxH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAt one of these, I took a few minutes to ask Peter: why, in the competitive, employability driven world of education, should someone consider studying philosophy, ethics, or religious studies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to spend a few days travelling around the UK with Candle Conferences, where I have been talking about the Problem of Evil, and Dr Peter Vardy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}